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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167113 | Method for grouping products of the vial type and other The method consists in collecting products (2) that are arriving spaced and in line on a conveyor (1). This collection is carried out by means of a collector device (40), in the form of a comb, arranged transversally, forming an angle between 60... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8151971 | Device for forming a continuous flow of oriented products An apparatus or device is described for forming a continuous and cadenced flow of groups of rolls of paper or other products, coming from the production line or from pre-packaging lines, and rotated by a carousel with horizontal shaft of rotation. The carousel is pr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7900765 | Grouping method and station for a palletizer Method of placing products on the floor of a grouping station (3), in aisles (5), to form a batch of products to be palletized, including withdrawing guide walls (6) forming the aisles (5) to an inactive position; moving the batch towards... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7740123 | Packaging and supply device for grouping product items A packaging device for grouping product items, especially semi-soft tissue paper packs (7), to a bundle of layered rows (L1, L2, L3) of said product items (7) having a supply line (1) inclu... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7383938 | Device for producing stacks An apparatus for forming stacks of products contains, between a horizontally movable row of compartments and a vertically operating feed device, a directing device which directs in each case one product into the compartment assigned thereto. The guide device is move... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7357243 | Packaging machine and method The packaging machine includes: a plurality of lane guides, the plurality of lane guides being spaced apart to form a plurality of lanes; a moveable conveyor belt having a first end and second end, the first end located beneath one of the plurality of lanes, the mov... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7237668 | Device and method for sorting items, such as rolls The device for sorting items, such as rolls, is provided downstream of a first number (N) of feeding channels (Ca) of items (R), which feeding channels (Ca) are provided with dispensing members (8) for a controlled release of the items (R). The device (100... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7222738 | Sorting system for multiple conveyor belts An apparatus and a method for sorting workpieces (204) includes multiple conveyors (201, 202), a scanner (208), an offloading device (216), a workpiece processor (218), and a computer (210). The computer has instructions for... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219485 | Semi-automatic boxing machine In a semiautomatic boxing machine, a first conveyor receives and moves a plurality of erected boxes to a work station, while a second conveyor receives and moves a plurality of products to a station for forming groups of products. A manipulator picks up groups of pr... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210280 | System and method for loading a cargo space with piece goods A machining system and unit, especially a welding cell, is provided for use for the machining of workpieces (2), especially body parts of vehicles. The machining system has one or more machining stations (15, 16) with robots (18, 19, 20) and at ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7191893 | Unit for transferring and spacing articles A unit (1) for transferring articles (1a) from a machine (MI) for producing the articles to a packaging machine (MA) includes a plurality of hoppers (4a) for receiving the articles (1a). The hoppers (4a)... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7128197 | High volume conveyor sortation system A sortation system and method includes providing a sorter assembly and a slug-building assembly. Product is received by the sorter assembly and sorted to a series of sortation lanes. The slug-building assembly includes a plurality of supply lines supplying product f... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124558 | Packaging machine including laterally movable conveyor The packaging machine includes: a plurality of lane guides, the plurality of lane guides being spaced apart to form a plurality of lanes; a moveable conveyor belt having a first end and second end, the first end located beneath one of the plurality of lanes, the mov... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7114609 | Product diverter and method A wrapping machine for wrapping products is provided with a product diverter for producing package formats which are greater in width than the number of lanes which deliver product to the wrapper machine. A plurality of metering belts advance product from an infeed ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6928789 | Assembly for collecting together different goods Assembly and method for collecting together different goods to form a pack and to pack these in an outer packaging. Streams of goods are always fed to a collection conveyor with feed conveyors. Each stream consists of the same goods and these are buffered at the dis... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6923307 | High volume conveyor sortation system A sortation system and method includes providing a sorter assembly and a slug-building assembly. Product is received by the sorter assembly and sorted to a series of sortation lanes. The slug-building assembly includes a plurality of supply lines supplying product f... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6732779 | Method and apparatus for building a multi-layered finite length structure A building unit for constructing a multi-layered, finite length structure, and a method of building such a structure is disclosed. Rolls of stock material are stored in cartridge stations adjacent to a build table. Mounted on the build table and capable of traveling... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6547058 | Conveyor row former, array rake and sweep mechanism for conveying objects having triangular cross sections A conveyor system comprises a novel row former, a novel array rake and a novel sweep mechanism that are all designed to prevent relative movement between objects arranged in rows and then formed in two dimensional arrays of the objects as the objects are ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6053301 | Apparatus for feeding connectors to a harness-making system An improved connector feeding apparatus for use with a wire harness-making system is described and includes a series of slots for holding longitudinal trains of connectors, a finger plate positioned above individual connector slots that is driven by a lin... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5979634 | Infeed section for packaging apparatus An apparatus for feeding, stacking, and/or upending products includes a pair of indexing star wheels. A conveyor advances a row of products toward an upstream star wheel. One or more products are metered into one of the notches in the upstream star wheel,... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5967741 | Method and apparatus for palletizing parcels with upper accompanying device Method and apparatus for arranging book, magazine, segnature parcels (A, B, . . . ) and the like in rows with a predefined separation of the parcels from one another for transferring them onto a pallet, said rows being formed by causing the parcels (A, B,... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5820335 | Apparatus for collecting plates A method and an apparatus for collecting plates from two rows of plates travelling side-by-side on a moving conveyor comprising inverting plates sequentially in one row of plates and merging said two rows of plates by depositing a plate from one row onto ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5792309 | Pocket coil spring structure assembling apparatus A pocket coil spring structure assembling apparatus for producing a pocket coil spring structure which includes a feeder mechanism to supply a group of pocket coil springs to a positioning transfer conveyor mechanism; a cutting mechanism between the feedi... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5733100 | Cylindrical object palletizer A palletizer of the present invention for arranging objects in a honeycomb pattern is disclosed. The palletizer comprises a mechanism for transporting the objects from an object source, a mechanism for arranging the objects into single file while the mech... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5669754 | Method and apparatus for collecting plates A method and an apparatus for collecting plates from two rows of plates travelling side-by-side on a moving conveyor comprising inverting plates sequentially in one row of plates and merging said two rows of plates by depositing a plate from one row onto ... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5570567 | Packing of cylindrical articles Equipment 10 for packing cylindrical articles includes a receiving station 18 for receiving articles to be packed. A displacing device is arranged in the receiving station 18 in proximity to a conveyor 16 for displacing articles from the conveyor 16. An a... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5450941 | Apparatus for separating, conveying and grouping flat items An apparatus for separating, conveying and grouping flat items includes a supply chute for advancing the items in a face-to-face orientation in a series of indeterminate length; a conveying track adjoining the supply chute for receiving items therefrom; a... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5295776 | Mobile bale collector A mobile bale collector having a first conveyor moves bales in a conveyance plane opposite to the direction of travel of the collector. The collector forms rows of bales in a direction at right angles to the direction thereof. The mobile bale collector ca... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5201626 | Method and an apparatus for loading filled sacks or similar articles into endwise open containers or corresponding cargo spaces A loading apparatus adapted to be driven into a container and to receive articles such as sacks or the like one by one and to spread the sacks in horizontal cross roads by a spreading system so as to spread out the sacks in horizontal rows filling out a w... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5199380 | System for separating newly hatched chicks from hatching debris System for separating newly hatched chicks from hatching debris is provided with comprising at least one movable belt constituted of rollers arranged parallel with respect to each other, but perpendicularly with respect to their direction of displacement,... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5174430 | Distributing and collecting device for conveyed products A distributing and collecting device for conveyed products includes a wire conveyor, a conveyance-direction sorting guide, a product-distributing device with a distributing vertical conveyor, a first gate and a second gate. The conveyed articles can be ta... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5133446 | Device for the formation and transfer of groups of commodities A device by which commodities emerging in single file from a supply unit are formed into groups and transferred to a wrapping machine includes feed belts, by which the single commodities are directed from the supply unit to a transfer station, a traversin... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5039276 | Methods and apparatus for forming groups of objects The grouping of objects, for example unit packaging goods, is accomplished by automatically assembling a stepped formation of the goods and subsequently leveling-off the stepped formation. To accomplish the foregoing, a serially increasing number of the g... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4932190 | Method of and apparatus for assembling and wrapping arrays of cigarette packets and the like Discrete cigarette packets which are supplied by a packing machine are assembled into arrays in successive compartments of a first endless conveyor at a first station, and the pockets of a second conveyor accept arrays from successive filled compartments ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4843797 | Dairy casing method and apparatus High speed dairy casing methods and apparatus assemble columns of filled containers arriving on two infeed conveyors, transfer one, two or more columns to an assembly ramp adjoining each conveyor, and then sweep the assembled columns from the conveyor and... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4781282 | Automatic continuously cycleable molding system and method A receiving and arranging apparatus for bringing electronic components, or other workpieces, into a molding apparatus and unloading them from suitable magazines into a mechanism which arranges them in a proper orientation for placement into a mold. The ap... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4714152 | Accumulator Apparatus comprising an accumulator for temporarily storing articles being transferred by a conveyor from one operation to another in the event that there is blockage of the articles at the discharge end of the conveyor and for restoring the articles to t... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4697691 | Apparatus for transferring articles, especially bottles A distributing apparatus for transferring bottles between conveyors or processing machines like labelling machines or capping machines and the like includes a rotating carrier supporting at least one transfer member which rotates or oscillates with respec... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4667808 | Loading apparatus particularly useful for the loading or unstable containers Apparatus for loading rows of containers onto a loading station in which the containers are pushed onto the loading station in rows, preferably with the containers in adjacent rows being staggered relative to one another, the leading container row engages... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4638903 | Method of separating and collecting commodities and device for the same A method and apparatus for collecting square articles including conveying a series of articles in a longitudinal direction, stopping the articles in front of a first pusher, transversely pushing a predetermined number of articles into a tapered second pus... | 01/27/1987 |
